The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09
NUMBER 30.

one mortally, by a fall or rock and
coal IN a collery at Plymouth, Penna.,
on the morning of the 4tb.
Two freight trains on the Pennsyl-
vsnla Railroad were wrecked by a COL
lision at Bolivar, Penna,. on the morn
ing OF the 4th, and two cars OF cotton
were destroyed by fire. No person was
injured.
Nine persons, the family and
friends Of Police Sergeant Hedrick,
were poisoned by Ice cream at a dinner
in TIedrick's house in Memphis, Ten
nessee, on the Sd. 1t is believed all
will recover.
-king's mill dam at Ingersoll, On
tario, was swept away on the morning
OF the 4th, by a freshet. A tenement
occupied by four families was wrecked
by the flood. John Bowman and his
daughter, a Young mar named Mclean
and a child were drowned, and a man
named Laird and his daughter ara
missing.
Local elections were held OIL the
9th tn kansas, and the returns, so far az
known. do not indicate that the intro
dHction of woman suffrage has materi-
ally changed the results. A telegram
from Emporia says; 1.-THE election to-.
day was attended with Considerable
excitement, which was for the greater
Part caused by the activity of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
in behalf of their candidate for Mavor
DR.. j. j. Wright against n. r
Weaver, the candidate of the citizens
As the result shows, however. their
efforts will not be crowned with tha
most gratifying success, as ont of tha
542 women who registered, only 3Q9
voted, and OF these over o~ne.fourtb
voted against the candidate of the We
mans Christian Temperance Unior.
Weaver was elected by a large ma.
lorfty." A telegram from Topeka saws
The women who had registered mostly
voted, and generally as their husbands
did,
The latest returns of the election IN
Michigan indicate that the Republican
State ticket is elected by a plurality ~
about oO0O, while the prohibitory
of $500.
The full vote of Cincinnati for
Mayor gives Smith, Republican, a
plurality of 500. The vote stood:
Smith, 1853; Stevenson, Labor, IT.
361; Matson, Democrat, IL, 051. The
other Republican candidates are elected
by pluralities ranging from 1910 10
345O. An unofficial footing for ward
offices shows the following result.
Councilmen-13 Republicans, 9 Labor.
D Democrats; Board or Education-l5
Republicans, s Labor, 2 Democrats.
A curious fact is that the Third.
Fourth, Nineteenth and Twenty-lrst
Wards, hitherto strongly Democratic.
and the Tenth, Eleventh. Twenty
second and Twenty fourth. strongly
Republican, were carried by the Labor
party on the 4tb. Oliver S. Kelly.
Republican, was elected Mayor OF
Springfield, Ohio, on the Alb. Hunt.
Republican, was elected Mayor of San.
dusky.
The city election in Dubuque, on the
4th. resulted in the success of the
knights of Labor ticket.
The municipal election in Cleye-
land, Ohio, on the 4th. resulted In "a
surprise, the entire Democratic ticket.
headed by b. d. Babcock for Mayor,
being chosen by about 1900 majority.
The municipal election in Chicago.
held OF the 9th, resulted in an over
whelming defeat of the Socialists.
Roche, the Republican candidate for
Mayor, receiving a majority of nearly
$4,000. Very few Democrats voted
the Labor ticket, nearly all who went
to the polls making common cause with
the Republicans. The Socialists elected
only a solitary Alderman.
Arthur Schuling, aged Is years.
was, on the 9th, shot and fatally
wounded by Bernard Reilly, aged Ia,
in a school house in New York. Reilly
was ''skylarkIng'' with an old pistol,
when it went off.
The engine Of a Union Pacific train
on the 9th, ran into the private coach
of the Holiday Ministries at Junction
City. Kansas, dangerously injurlng j.
H. Holiday.
Six Italian miners were killed on
the 9th by an explosion in a coal shaft
at Savanna, in the Indian Territory.
w. G. Rogers. James Swaney, J.
B, C~illaghan, John Brady, John Britt
ana III. =. Baughman were terribly
burned on the morning of the 9TH, by
sn explosion of molten lead in the con-
vertIng department of the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works at Braddock.
Penna. Calia2ban and Brady are not
expected TO recover.
On the afternoon of the 4th six
workmen at Vanderkloets' Iron
Works, i'll Chicago, were overcome by
carbonic oxide gas from smoulderiDg
coke, and one of them, Peter Kley,
died from the effects. Two others are
in a critical condition. While laborers
we've excayating for the walls of a
building in Syracuse, New York. on
the 9th, the earth caved in, burying
four men. Patrick Murphy, aged 55
years, was killed; the others were Sc
verely injured.
The Secretary of the. Treasury de-
ciGes that national bank depositaries
are not required TO redeem trade do
lars under the recent act.
The DAILY House and several I'D
joining buildings in Trenton. New
jersey, was on on the 5th, damrged by
1re IN the exteDt of 2 OOO